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Grammar : Verb
Spell : cheyn
Phonetic Transcription : tʃeɪn

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Définition of chained

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French chaeine "chain" (12c., Modern French chaîne), from Latin catena "chain" (source also of Spanish cadena, Italian catena), of unknown origin, perhaps from PIE root *kat- "to twist, twine" (cf. Latin cassis "hunting net, snare").
  • Figurative use from c.1600. As a type of ornament worn about the neck, from late 14c. Chain of stores is American English, 1846. Chain gang is from 1834; chain reaction is from 1916 in physics, specific nuclear physics sense is from 1938; chain mail first recorded 1822, in Scott, from mail (n.2). Before that, mail alone sufficed. Chain letter recorded from 1892; usually to raise money at first; decried from the start as a nuisance.
  • Nine out of every ten givers are reluctant and unwilling, and are coerced into giving through the awful fear of "breaking the chain," so that the spirit of charity is woefully absent. ["St. Nicholas" magazine, vol. XXVI, April 1899]
  • Chain smoker is attested from 1886, originally of Bismarck (who smoked cigars), thus probably a loan-translation of German Kettenraucher. Chain-smoking is from 1930.
  • verb manacle in metal
Example sentences :
  • We are like men in a subterranean cave, so chained that they can look only forward to the entrance.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • They have the ferocity of a chained dog, and are proud of it.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • Mr Flintwinch shut him out, and chained him out, without a moment's loss of time.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • The dog-musher secured a club and went over to the chained animal.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • If you had chained me up when the fit was on me, I should have broken away, and gone there.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Once his opponents had him carried to Spain chained like a common prisoner.
  • Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
  • Indian men were chained together and forced to carry the baggage.
  • Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
  • Their attention was chained by what now happened before their eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
  • The captured eagle with the broken wing was now chained to the wall as well.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • He had not chained the young horse, but that could be done at this point.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

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